1,075 Quotes by Richard Branson

The war on drugs has gone on for about forty-five, fifty years - and it's been a complete failure. If you had a business that was failing so badly, you would change course. And it's just incredible that governments continue along the same course.

He's just flown further than man, or woman, has ever flown. He has had pretty much no sleep since he set off from Kennedy a few days ago, and he has been through an incredible amount.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new.

A business can be started with very little money.

If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.

And in the process, we have come up with fuels - algae-based fuels, isobutanol-based fuels and other fuels - that we think will power the planes in the future so that, you know, by 2020 I hope that our planes will be powered on fuels that are clean fuels and are not polluting the environment so that we'll have a green airline and an airline that actually has fuels that will be hopefully cheaper than the dirty fuels of the past. So [we're] doing good and also turning a profit at the same time.

Don’t just play the game – change it for good.

Brave people don't live forever, but cautious people don't live at all.

What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better